Re: PC terminal server for 5250

[Brad Jensen <brad@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan Megannon wrote:
>
> HI Brad,
>
> After having read your previous post regarding this topic, it got me thinking
> of:
>
> The MicroS**t SNA Gateway. We all know how that operated.

No, I don't. I think of SNA as a communications protocol. I
assumeyou will be telling me that the SNA gateway allowed PC
clients to talk to green screen programs? Instead of using 5250
emulation or tn5250?

>  Well, instead of the
> gateway server connected to an LU on the AS/400, why can it not be serviced
> via a product such as yours or Joe's? That way, the SNA Gateway enabled
> products may be able to function the same as they have always up to the
> gateway. Between the gateway and the iSeries (pronounced AS/400), it can be
> implemented in such a way that it does not incur the wrath of CFINT.

One of the things you could do with this, is write a
filter/replace on the RPG programs on the AS/400 side to replace
screen calls with a tcp/ip connection to the PC server, then to
tn5250. You would have to process the screen files and pass them
tot he server. The thing that I don't think would work would be
subfiles, but you might be able to program around that also.
There would be no CFINT.

But that's not the primary thing I have in mind.

> I have
> not worked on this type of enablement, so would not know if it is possible.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Jan Megannon.


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